GARDENS OF FEW FLOWERS 



plants; and a garden planted generously with bulbs 

 and showing a few delft or earthen pots for formal 

 effects was apt, as it also is to-day, to be called a 

 Dutch garden. Such sunken brick-walled gardens 

 as are seen in Holland, however, have never become 

 general in this country, although there are at various 

 places notably fine examples of this conception of a 

 garden plan. The sunken garden is, perhaps, the one 

 of all others that should be laid out under the super- 

 vision of a skilful landscape architect. 



At present there is such an abundance of accessible 

 material, both native and foreign, that a prodigious 

 luxuriance is noticed in many of our gardens. Often 

 I have thought that, if they were more simply planted, 

 more influenced by suggestions from the Italian mode 

 of treatment, without at all being made direct copies 

 from the gardens under Italy's blue sky, it would be 

 to their betterment. 



Each year the power of the formal garden becomes 

 stronger in this country; being often preferred because 

 every inch of space in it can be used to advantage. 

 The naturalistic garden is also making its way rapidly, 

 and is now more frequently seen than ever before. 



The formal garden gives opportunities to place 

 many bedding plants, palms, ornamental grasses, stand- 

 ards, and forms of growth that have for it a special 

 appropriateness. So also the naturalistic garden invites 

 beautiful flowers to make their home within its boun- 

 daries, and to live there as they do in the absolute 

 wild. For in such a garden, plant life would show 

 no deviation from the original types. 



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